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Article: IRAQ: USA SAYS IRAQ CONVERTING DONATED ASSISTANCE TRUCKS INTO ROCKET LAUNCHERS.(United States George W. Bush administration)(Brief Article)
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- IPR Strategic Business Information Database
- Article date:
- March 7, 2002
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The United States escalated its psychological war against Iraq by showing slides to a United Nations meeting that claim to show trucks delivered to the sanctions-hit country for humanitarian aid have been converted into rocket launchers and military vehicles. Washington took an unusual step of sharing information on Iraq at a session of the sanctions committee of the 15-nation Security Council, ostensibly to convince the committee to ban the import of trucks to Baghdad under the UN's oil-for-food program, and ease criticism it is un-necessarily holding up essential humanitarian imports, according to the British Independent In addition, the Bush administration is also ...